Personnel contamination monitors - DOE-HDBK-1145-2001

Radiological Safety Training for Plutonium Facilities

DOEHDBK11452001

Instructor's Guide

Add facility-specific

Neutron

information.

Be aware that it is possible to have a

neutron dose rate when there is little or no

gamma dose rate. Therefore, special

surveys for neutrons may need to be done in

areas where gamma radiation fields would

be expected.

4. Personnel contamination monitors

Personnel survey instruments are usually

placed at the exits from radiologically controlled

areas. Personnel frisking shall be performed

after removal of protective clothing and prior to

washing and showering. The use of a

personnel contamination monitor (such as a

portal monitor or hand and foot counter), if

available, is encouraged by the RadCon

Standard. Personal items such as notebooks,

papers, flashlights, shall be subjected to the

same frisking.

Continuous air monitors (CAMs)

It is important to alert workers when airborne Identify site-specific

radioactivity levels rise because inhalation is terminology for CAM

alarms/set points.

the most common pathway into the body.